The Humor of Huldrych Zwingli

Download or read book The Humor of Huldrych Zwingli written by Fritz Schmidt-Clausing and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huldrych Zwingli, the third man of the Reformation, is generally remembered as a stern, abrupt and solemn individual. This characterization was proven wrong with the publication of Fritz Schmidt-Clausing's volume on the humor of Zwingli (Otto Lembeck Verlag, 1968). This volume, long out of print, is now offered again in a bilingual German/English edition, making Zwingli's humorous remarks, anecdotes, and stories accessible to students, scholars and interested laypersons once again.